Alien Attack

the aliens first attacked the waters of the world
giant starships, oblong silver water drops, the size of football fields
rays like liquid aurora in beams lighting up oceans, seas, lakes, streams

humans scrambled to battle, then conference tables
old enmities vaporized, in a common call to arms
the space beings clearly knew
ruin the water, ruin man

so they protected the water

then the aliens came for the air
hovering fans, beneath egg shaped balloons as big as mountains
cyclones stirred beneath the blades, tornado winds and black clouds

already allied from the war to save every last drop
the humans coalesced once again
the enemy clearly knew
ruin the air, ruin man

so they protected the air

the aliens came next for the trees, then the animals, then crops, then the children
they came in unimaginable crafts, each larger than the last, and more powerful
beams of starlight and death-rays of sunshine, and finally a moon sized mirror

they enemy clearly knew
what would bring the ruin

but the enemy was no match for mankind
united in a front to fight and protect
their homes, their families, the planet, their kind

the human-beings were a force unlike anything
the aliens had ever seen

which was why the beings came in the first place

to protect man





(Poem #5 for National Poetry Month...by Don Rearden, www.donrearden.com)